Lucy Easthope is a professional emergency planner. She helps governments and businesses prepare for the worst. In the age of the permacrisis, it’s a growing profession. “We’re having a little bit of a—I don’t know if you can call it a renaissance—maybe just a ‘naissance,’” says Easthope, a professor in practice of risk and hazard at the University of Durham. Being ready, Easthope believes, begins with being willing to talk about the worst-case scenario.
“It doesn’t need to be frightening. Actually, it’s great to say: OK, when something happens, I’m ready.” Right now, that something feels like it could be anything: another pandemic, another international conflict, another breakdown of global
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